t Mrs. Smith's, Ruth," Mrs.
Tellingham begged her over the wire. "I am sure I should not know what to
say to Mr. Gregg if he comes and finds that his daughter has disappeared.
The poor child! I shall not sleep to-night, Ruth Fielding. Amy must be
found."
Ruth felt just that way herself. No matter what her friends said in
contradiction, Ruth felt that she was partly to blame. She should have
kept a close watch over Amy Gregg.
"I let that picture-making get in between us," she wailed. "I'm glad it's
all done and out of the way. I'd rather not have written the scenario at
all, than have anything happen to Amy."
"You're a goose, Ruthie," declared her chum. "You're not to blame. Her
father's harshness with her has made the child run away. _If_ she has."
"Her own unhappy disposition has caused all the trouble," said Ann,
bitterly.
"Oh! don't speak so," begged Ruth. "Suppose something has happened to
her."
"Nothing ever happens to kids like her," said Ann, bruskly.
But that was not so. Something already had happened to Amy Gregg. She was
lost!
CHAPTER XXI
HUNTING FOR AMY
In spite of her seemingly heartless words, it was Ann Hicks who agreed to
go with Ruth to hunt for the lost girl. Helen frankly acknowledged that
she was afraid to tramp about the woods and fields at night, with only a
boy and a lantern for company.
"Come along, Ruthie. I have helped find stray cattle on the range more
times than you could shake a stick at," declared good-natured Ann Hicks.
"Rouse out that lazy boy of Grandma Smith's."
Mrs. Sadoc Smith had to give just so much advice, and see that the
expedition was properly equipped. A thermos bottle filled with coffee went
into Ruth's bag, while Curly was laden with a substantial lunch, a roll of
bandages, a bottle of arnica and some smelling-salts, beside the lantern.
"Huh!" protested the boy to Ann, "if she was sending us out to find a lost
_boy_ all she'd send would be that cat-o'-nine-tails of hers that hangs in
the woodshed. I k
Notka biograficzna
Jerzy Faczynski Eugieniusz Zak Jan Rusten Orlowski Wankie
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
John Middleton Murry (August 6, 1889 March 12, 1957) was an English writer. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married, as her second husband, in 1918. Following her death, he edited her work. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, along with the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend.